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I was lucky enough to get into the private beta of Zamdoo . Zamdoo is a competitive analysis tool that allows you to grab all the ads for a keyword on Adwords, Yahoo, & MSN. You download a client application which runs on your computer and scrapes the results every hour. Then you log into Zamdoo and download the files.

The site also provides the destination URL of each ad, number of times the ad has appeared, the various split tests an advertisers is running, and other helpful information. You can use this information to launch PPC to Affiliate arbitrage with success. Here’s a video with an inside look at the members only area of Zamdoo:

** UPDATE **
You can now sign up for the limited ZamDoo beta release.

In this tutorial I’m going to show you the future of Adwords Competitive Analysis. This product is called Zamdoo, it’s currently in Beta but it will be available shortly.

Here you’ll see a login screen for Zamdoo. I can look at my campaigns and keywords. Zamdoo allows you to take a complete listing of all ads running for a particular keyword on Adwords, Yahoo or MSN. (Refer to my previous post about KeyCompete for tracking competitor keywords.)

You can track an unlimited number of keywords in the Beta. Right now I’m tracking Adwords related keywords. I can see how many ads appear for the particular keyword, how many times that ad has appeared, and how many variations of the ad is running.

To see all the ads, I click on the tab ‘latest ads’, which gives me a good idea of the competitive landscape for a market. Zamdoo also shows which ads contain affiliate links.

So how do you profit from this data? Well, the logic goes something like this: “If an affiliate is direct linking to a merchant, and his ad is running in top position for a long period of time, he’s probably making money off the ad. Therefore we can also make money in that niche.”

Zamdoo runs as a desktop application that queries and screen scrapes the latest ads from Google, MSN & Yahoo every few hours, then uploads the information to the Zamdoo database. To get the data, you log into Zamdoo and download an excel spreadsheet.

Affiliates: be on your toes, because this type of software is already gaining in popularity. Affiliates will continue to flood niche markets. It’s becoming increasingly important to
build a defensible website.

Here are a few of the other tools on the market that compete with Zamdoo:

- Google Cash Detective/Automator
- Rich Jerk X-Ray
- Competition Dominator
- Undercover Profits
- AdSpyPro

I suspect this will change the landscape of affiliate marketing over the next year.

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